ROUND OF SEVERE STUFF. CREWS AROUND VERMONT SPENT THE DAY CLEANING UP.... NEWS CHANNEL FIVE'S VANESSA MISCIAGNA HAS MORE. george ambrose we walked out and the wind was blowing and the rain was driving GEORGE AMBROSE SAYS HE HAD TO SWERVE AROUND TREES AND DEBRIS ON QUARTERLINE ROAD DURING WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S DELUGE george we were headed out of our driveway and a small tree fell right in front of us which was pretty scary SNAPPED BRANCHES AND A DOWNED TREE ACROSS FROM HiS CLARENDEN HOME ARE REMNENTS OF THE POWERFULSTOR M. EVEN A DAY LATER, DRIVERS STILL HAD TO MANUEVER THEIR WAY AROUND. BUT IT WAS UTILITY CREWS THAT REALLY HAD THEIR WORK CUT OUT FOR THEM rusty johnson mountain power busted trees, busted wires, a lot of them were big trees... It's been a mess THE STORM'S STRONG WINDS TOOK OUT POWERLINES -- LEAVING 37 THOUSAND VERMONTERS IN THE DARK. WORKERS FROM OUT OF STATE CAME IN TO HELP LOCAL CREWS GET CUSTOMERS BACK ON LINE.... chuck piotrowski we were working through out the night and we redistributed resources through out the state to meet the needs of those outages NAT trees brush MOST OF THE DAMAGE HAPPENED DEEP IN THE WOODS. CREWS IN TINMOUTH AND WALLINGFORD HAD TO HIKE ON FOOT IN 80 DEGREE WEATHER TO GET TO DAMAGED POWER LINES RUSTY you gotta lug alotta stuff in the woods with you, it helps to have a 4 wheeler but we don't have that today so were legging it all in chuck a lot of the times it's old school, just hiking up to sites, and that's where a lot of the time is spent on restoration is just getting to the site AND BECAUSE OF THOSE TREKS, SOME CUSTOMERS WILL NOT HAVE THE LIGHTS BACK ON TIL FRIDAY... IN TINMOUTH, VANESSA MISCIAGNA, NEWS CHANNEL 5 YOU CAN STAY

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